People often tell me that they have difficulty hearing God. Many times the problem is not that we don’t hear Him, but that we don’t recognize the small ways He is speaking to us in our thoughts every day. I’m going to share with you a recent experience from my own life, which is a practical example of hearing God’s voice and responding to it — both what I did right and what I did wrong.

One evening last week, a concern popped into my thoughts about our teenage daughter falling down the stairs which lead from her bedroom to the ground level of our house. The stairs are a little steep and uncarpeted, and she often takes them in a hurry, so this would be a bit of a natural concern for me. Because I tend to be in a flow of prayer most of the time, my natural response was to say a quick prayer for her safety and then move on…